Thorpe out of 400m Free @ Athens

[Guest Nanks]

In an amazing turn of events at the Australian Olympic Swimming Selection Trials last night World & Olympic Champion as well as World Record holder Ian Thorpe overbalanced on the starting blocks and fell into the water, disqualifying him from the event, ruling him out of the race at the Olympics.

 

What do you think of this?? Obviously the rules have to apply to everyone, but for fuck's sakes, the world's best swimmer can't defend his title because of this??

[The Czech Republic]

I thought this was track from the thread and was gonna be like "I think Jim Thorpe's been dead for a while."

 

 

That's a lot of fucking bullshit. Ian Thorpe can beat everyone. He could do it nine times. NBC should enter him as a spnsored wildcard so that people watch the swimming events. And if NBC can't do that, they should just look at the committee with a cold unblinking stare and say "WE ARE NBC." That oughta convince the little bastards.

[Guest Nanks]

Well that is what it would take to see him in the pool for the 400m. Thorpey is not the kind of guy to initiate any kind of court proceeding to get an exception to the rule. I just hope the devastation he must be feeling doesn't fuck him up for the rest of his trials this weekend.

[EVIL~! alkeiper]

The Olympic Qualifying Procedures are quite silly, to be honest. There should be some selection system, where you are selected based on your performance the last two to three years. As it is, the American baseball team isn't even in the Olympics either, because they lost ONE GAME. As a hardcore baseball fan, I can tell you even the greatest baseball teams lose often.